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Aseptic Techniques and Environmental Management

DESCRIPTION:

This activity affords the student pharmacist the opportunity to learn aseptic techniques and processing to properly manage and maintain a sterile compounding environment. The fundamentals of gowning and gloving, avoiding obstruction of critical first air, and the avoidance of touch and cross contamination is what students will learn as they prepare for entry into a controlled environment. This will be followed by moving oneself and technology between ISO class environments. The processes of deactivation, decontamination, cleaning, and disinfection represent a major portion of the day-to-day skills required to manage a cleanroom. Learning these techniques is the starting point; however, it must be followed up by competency testing. Students will have the opportunity to learn protocols for gloved fingertip testing after gowning or final aseptic manipulations of finished preparations. Finally, students will be afforded the opportunity to evaluate performance of personnel and conduct viable, non-viable, and surface sampling procedures used to manage and maintain the compounding environment.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Perform gowning, forearm and hand sanitization, and gloving in an ISO 8 anteroom.